A Time Of Madness - The Movie

A man wakes up in a prison and is told the way out is through his dreams.  But dreams always kill their dreamers...

Originally released as A Time Of Magick in 2017.  The soundtrack was remixed in 2019 and the movie re-edited in 2020.  The inital plan was just to remix the audio to the movie (and stamp on the new title) but after a few days of review I felt I understood in 2020 what the movie was trying to say in 2017 (but did not).  The title was changed because in an early script the idea was that magick was driving the character crazy.  But any references to magick never really materialize.  I suppose at a certain point the idea of dreams replaced it.  

The new version is shorter by about ten minutes but it has new scenes.  The most noticeable of these is the inclusion of the masks which now begins the movie.  They were prepared for the original movie but ended up not being used at the time.  I ended up using them a bit in the video for Wreathe earlier in 2019.  On the new edit I felt not using them was a mistake as I feel they help tie it all together.  Also the Garbage Hill is now the main setting.  In the first version it was an odd thing out in the distance.  That the character is now actually living on it I feel gives it a more obvious importance and allegorical meaning.  


Starring:
Terrance Birston
Kevin Bercier
Patrick Lowe
Chris Kilrea
The Hand of Ed Ackerman
Mike Jarrow
Brian O'Leary
Carol Neustaetder
Andrew Ross
Chad Ellery

Music from the album of the same title performed by:
Terrance Birston
Curtis Bulback
Scott "Drumming" Young
Mike Jarrow

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Behind the Scenes

Ed, who played The Hand made a series of behind the scenes videos while we were filming at RagPickers.  Check out his "89Gertie" channel for your weekly dose of creativity.